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CONFERENCES


Conference One

The Growth of the Individual: A View Through the Empathic Lens

Saturday September 17, 2011
Featured Speaker: Frank M. Lachmann, PhD


Conference Two

Affects, Intentions and Goals: A New Look At Motivation

Saturday November 19, 2011
Featured Speaker: Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD


Conference Three

Engagement and Developmental Enactment

Saturday February 4, 2012
Featured Speaker: Donna Orange, PhD


Conference Four

The Clinical Challenge and How We Meet It: Conceptual Guidelines for What We Say and What We Do

Saturday, April 28, 2012
Featured Speakers: James L. Fosshage, PhD & Judith Guss Teicholz, PhD



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Conference Two


Affects, Intentions and Goals: A New Look At Motivation


Saturday November 19, 2011

Featured Speaker: Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD Chair: Jane Jones, Ph.D., MSW


This day centers on Dr. Lichtenberg's groundbreaking theory, which integrates developmental and clinical findings to expand clinicians' empathic appreciation of their patients' inner world. He has also developed therapeutic guidelines for the exploratory psychotherapies involving creativity and the spirit of inquiry. In today's presentation, Dr. Lichtenberg will build on his earlier work to include a portrayal of mental processing involving systems theory and further expand his understanding of human motivation. He will integrate these ideas into clinical proposals that enrich clinical interaction and facilitate the process of change.


Information on the speakers


Schedule

8:00 amRegistration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 am Opening Remarks
9:00 am Affects, Intentions and Goals: A New Look at Motivation
Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD
10:00 am Audience Discussion
10:20 am Break
10:45 am Panel Discussion: Elizabeth Carr, MSN, BC & David Wyner, MSW
11:45 am Audience Discussion
12:00 pm Lunch (On your own)
1:30 pm Small Group Discussion
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Case Presentation: Marie Hellinger, MSW & Joseph D. Lichtenberg, MD
3:45 pm Audience Discussion
4:00 pm Break
4:15 pm Small Group Discussion
5:35 pm Plenary Discussion
6:00 pm Conference ends

Learning Objectives

From the presentation by Joseph Lichtenberg, M.D., the panel discussion with Elizabeth Carr, MSN, B.C, and the clinical case presentation with Marie Hellinger, M.S.W., and Joseph Lichtenberg, participants will be able to:

  1. Discuss the central features of motivational systems theory.
  2. Explain the integration of motivational systems theory within self psychology.
  3. Discuss newer ways of viewing mental processing of affects, intentions, and goals and "self" as described by Lichtenberg.
  4. From the case presentation, discuss the application of the therapeutic approach derived from motivational systems theory.
  5. From the case presentation, discuss the role empathic perception plays in the forming of inferences in psychoanalytically-informed therapy.

Based on attendance in small group discussion, participants will be able to:

  1. Discuss and analyze motivational systems theory.
  2. Discuss and analyze the presented clinical material from a contemporary self psychology perspective.
  3. State that, "I had the opportunity to ask questions about the presented material."